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Why Colorado Tokers Love Chernobyl

Bestowing the right name on a strain has become more important than ever. Although not quite as pun-filled as the craft-beer or food-truck industries, the commercial marijuana business has so many colorful varieties that a boring moniker really stands out among the Alaskan Thunderfucks and Cantaloupe Kushes of the world...
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100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Sarah Fukami

#52: Sarah Fukami Colorado born and bred, printmaker and current RedLine resident Sarah Fukami creates work that's deeply rooted in her Japanese family’s internment during WWII and issues around her cultural heritage. Fukami layers her mixed-media historical references on Plexiglas panels, relating stories of figures both notable and anonymous, bringing...
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Trump’s Choice for Interior: What Will It Mean for Colorado?

For a guy who’s vowed not to load his administration with the usual corporate lobbyists and Washington insiders, Trump has stacked his transition team with energy moguls, climate deniers, anti-EPA crusaders, and other highly vested interests. His short list of Interior nominees reportedly includes such wild cards as Sarah Palin and multimillionaire Forrest Lucas, founder of Lucas Oil Products. Whoever gets the job, it’s likely that his appointee will be ideologically inclined to the drill-baby-drill mantra.
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The Twelve Rules of Christmas

The holiday season can be overwhelming and stressful. Nothing — not church or the TV specials or the holiday episodes of our favorite sitcoms — can solve everything that pops up and threatens our jolliness. But follow these rules and you might actually survive Christmas and make the season that much...
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AG Nom Jeff Sessions Thought KKK Was Okay Until He Learned They Smoked Pot?

Last week, we posted about a petition launched by the Marijuana Majority calling on president-elect Donald Trump to respect cannabis laws in states such as Colorado, which has legalized limited pot sales for recreational purposes. In an interview with Westword, Marijuana Majority chairman and founder Tom Angell also expressed concern...
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How-To Questions States Like Colorado Google More Than Other States

What we Google says a lot about us — and about where we live. That's the thesis (to use a particularly highfalutin term) at the heart of an Estately post headlined "How-To Questions Each State Googles More Frequently Than Any Other State." The site used Google Autocomplete to compile hundreds of...
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Root for Housemade Amaro From Elliot Strathmann at Spuntino

Elliot Strathmann, co-owner of Spuntino, at 2639 West 32nd Avenue, has been rooting around the woods of Colorado looking for specific ingredients, with the help of professional forager Graham Steinruck, founder of Hunt & Gather, a company that provides foraged mushrooms and other produce to Denver restaurants. Strathmann has been stocking...
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Are Protest Songs and Good Songs Mutually Exclusive?

“Protest songs in response to military aggression, Protest songs to try and stop the soldier's gun, But the battle raged on.” Against Me! - “White People for Peace” From the onset of human endeavor, people have been at war. We as a race have done terrible things to each other...
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Why Denver NORML Isn’t Supporting Social Pot Use Initiative 300

In late August, the Denver Responsible Use Initiative, a proposal intended to create venues for the social consumption of cannabis in the Mile High City, fell short of qualifying for the November ballot. Afterward, attorney Judd Golden of Denver NORML, which backed the measure, told us the organization had not...
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Opponents of Micro-Apartments on Humboldt Street Lose Zoning Appeal

Suite 201 of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building was bursting at the seams Tuesday, October 11, when the Board of Adjustments took up an appeal that argued the zoning department had erred when it permitted micro-apartments and a restaurant in the 1500 block of Humboldt Street. The board...
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Ask a Stoner: Why Are Marijuana Buds Called “Flower”?

Dear Stoner: Why do you and all of the media refer to marijuana buds as “flower”? The flowers on the marijuana plant are produced by the male plant. The real magic happens when you successfully eliminate all of the males and their flowers and keep the females from getting pollinated...
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Cary Kennedy on Her Run for Governor in 2018, Campaign Announcement

After former Colorado state treasurer Cary Kennedy announced that she is running for the 2018 Colorado governorship on Facebook Live from behind the wheel of a moving car, the video went viral for reasons she hadn't anticipated; political opponents and the press needled her for supposedly distracted driving. But rather than fuming over the response, she says she's pleased that so many people got to hear her message, which she expands upon in a wide-ranging interview with Westword.